Is Sarah Palin a McCain-Republican?

January 29, 2010 | David Farrar

[DavidFarrar]

Charlie Crist has taking to calling himself a McCain-Republican in his Florida race against Marco Rubio of late. Apparently, he sees a similarity between himself and Scott Brown. I'll have to admit, calling ones self a McCain-Republican sounds better than simply calling yourself a RINO.

[SoCalPol]

No, guess again. Farrar is using the Alinsky rules for radicals.
Nice try.

[McGruff]

This be you?

In the mid-1990s, David Farrar (left) was awarded the title “Master of the Net” by one of his online political opponents, Janice Moira Graham, who went on to become an (unsuccessful) Alliance Party election candidate. The two frequently duelled in the nz.politics group on Usenet, a pre-Web network of Internet discussion groups that has been fading into obscurity in recent years thanks to the rise of blogging.

[TigersEye]

You’re going to avoid giving a substantive answer too? You guys are too easy. Pathetic even.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

no.

[allmendream]

What a ridiculous assumption.

McCain picked Palin because she had what he did not... an actual conservative outlook. As is customary, the VP pick shores up positions where the candidate is perceived as weak.

[DavidFarrar]

Sarah Palin is actully going to campaign for McCain during his Arizona primary.

Action speaks louder than words.

ex animo
davidfarrar

[TigersEye]

But you nicely avoid any mention of her actions while in office instead focusing on a personal political favor.

[Man50D]

Avoiding the question is not an answer to the question. Your premise was that she "agreed" with those positions.

Forgive me for not assuming you would recognize the obvious fact an endorsement by its very nature is an admission one agrees with that candidate. How can Palin not support him on those issues while endorsing him? Please explain how you rationalize in your head one who endorses a candidate does not support the positions of that candidate?

[MBB1984]

I would give Palin a bit of a break on this endorsement. After all, it takes her while to understand things and she is probably still working on understanding the whole North and South Korea thingy.

[Man50D]

No, guess again. Farrar is using the Alinsky rules for radicals. Nice try.

Farrar didn't force Palin to endorse socialist light McAmnesty. You however resort to name calling lacking any factual content to buttress such a statement.

[Balding_Eagle]

Those of us who are familiar with Alinsky rules see post 3 as an Alinsky attack.

[TigersEye]

Forgive me for not assuming you would recognize the obvious fact an endorsement by its very nature is an admission one agrees with that candidate.

Obvious fact. LOLOL Lame.

How can Palin not support him on those issues while endorsing him? Please explain how you rationalize in your head one who endorses a candidate does not support the positions of that candidate?

She might feel a loyalty to him for bringing her onto the national stage. I will leave the mind reading to you and your buddy Kreskin.

[Man50D]

McCain picked Palin because she had what he did not... an actual conservative outlook. As is customary, the VP pick shores up positions where the candidate is perceived as weak.

McAmnesty picked Palin because his first choice, socialist LIEberman, was soundly rebuked by party members. No one held a gun to her head. She could have turned it down if his principles were profoundly different from hers.

[DavidFarrar]

I agree, which formed the basis of my support. But McCain lost that election in large measure because conservatives didn’t believe McCain was a conservative. I do hope Arizonians come to the same conclusion.

But this time around Palin isn’t campaigning against a liberal democrat, but another conservative. This time around, Sarah Palin IS trying to convince good, honest, believing conservatives to actually VOTE against another conservative, a conservative that has his faults — that’s true enough — but one that is certainly more conservative than John McCain ever thought of being.

So how does one do that and still be a Reagan-Republican?

ex anmio
davidfarrar

[Balding_Eagle]

Post 33, not 3

[TigersEye]

So how does one do that and still be a Reagan-Republican?

Did Reagan give support to GHWB?

[Man50D]

Those of us who are familiar with Alinsky rules see post 3 as an Alinsky attack.

Please specify which part of reply #3 is not factual. Is it her accepting to be his running mate or her choosing to endorse him despite knowing he agrees with the socialist RATs on most of the fundamental issues?

[Balding_Eagle]

Post 33 not 3. Typo on my part.

[SoCalPol]

Here is a fact.

the others in the primary against McCain don’t stand a chance. One is an anti war loon and the other lost his seat in congress and just paid back tens of thousands of dollars he received from Jake Abramoff.

Bottom line, McCain vs the Democrat.

I will take McCain who understands we must fight and win the war against the IslamOfascists and who has ben in the lead against ObamaCare.

So, looks like you are supporting the Democrat.

[Man50D]

She might feel a loyalty to him for bringing her onto the national stage.

She shouldn't feel any loyalty if that is the motivation for her endorsement considering LIEberman was McAmnesty's first choice. Palin only came into the picture after party members becams outrages.

Regardless of that fact, then your are confirming she is choosing party over principles. That trait will not endear her to Conservatives in the long run knowing the the OP(formerly the GOP) has been incrementally heading down the socialist path for years.